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UK is one of the largest plug-in car markets in Europe with 36,917 new passenger plug-in registrations in 2016. That number include 24,714 PHEVs. According to Autoexpress, new car tax brackets that will be introduced in April will limit exemptions: “The government’s new car tax brackets will move 66% of…

Norway, which saw a record 37.5 percent share of plug-in electric car sales in January, thinks that level isn’t good enough. The country is aiming to have a national car fleet made up of 100% zero-emission vehicles. Currently, the EV rate is below 20 percent! Opel Ampera-e coming this summer…

Plug-in vehicles sales closed out 2016 with a flourish – and epically so, setting the new monthly record for EV sales in the US we had been looking for since the Summer…and it wasn’t even close. With all the numbers tallied up, an estimated 24,785 plug-in vehicles were sold in December…which…

It appears as though plug-in electric vehicle sales will go out with a bang in 2016, as November posted another big leap forward in EV ownership in the US. For the month an estimated 13,337 plug-in vehicles were sold, which was up 32.4% from a year ago. Overall for the…

Against a backdrop of some admittedly fairly woeful sales comps from 2015, plug-in electric car sales shot skyward in August, as new and updated offerings found a record number of homes on US driveways. During the month, an estimated ~14,882 were sold, up 66% from the 8,972 moved in August of 2015….

Plug-in electric vehicle sales once again soared to new heights in August, obliterating (admittedly weak) 2015 results. EV sales in the US have now set a sales record in all 8 of the month so far this year*, but like the two months prior, huge gains have now been logged more…

The the overall plug-in electric vehicle shopping experience was recently rated by the Sierra Club – including both the traditional dealership model, and direct sales. In total, 174 volunteers visited 308 car dealerships and stores that represented 13 different automakers in 10 ZEV states. Some of the volunteers even bought an EV during the…

While every month so far in 2016 has been an improvement, June was something special as the “Tesla rush” to meet Q2 estimates was far greater than the “Tesla rush” of Q2 2015 and Ford set multi-year highs for plug-in sales. In total, a new all-time record for plug-in sales…

It is no secret that plug-in sales in the US have been on the upswing of late. Heading into April, five consecutive record sales months have been logged – and April continued that trend, making it six in a row, although unlike last month, it was no “sure thing” until all the…

Back in 2011, I was able to drive home in my Nissan Leaf after waiting nearly 18 months on the reservation list. I was one of the first people in Texas to own a Leaf. At that point I honestly thought that by this point today half of new car…

March 2016 brought U.S. record of plug-in electric car sales of some~13,725 (full month’s recap here). And we are not talking about just year ago results, but for any month. Ever. That’s nearly 33% more than year ago. We need to go back to mid-2014 to see a higher growth in year-over-year…

We can now officially end the “low gas prices hurt plug-in vehicles sales” argument as March banks a 5th consecutive monthly record in the US. Additionally, March had another unexpected bonus surprise, a new all-time record for the US. For March, and estimated ~13,725 plug-ins were sold, good for an impressive…